Some things that didn’t qualify for a unique posting during the past week.
The OS Quest Updates
Full Feeds now really fully feeds. I’ve always used the setting for “full feeds” but due to a feature/bug in Wordpress the articles were cut off whenever I used the <more> tag. (btw, that’s not the exact tag). Thanks to [...]
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I came across SiteUpTime.com which does web site monitoring, as the name implies. They offer a free plan which I just signed up for to monitor The OS Quest.
The free plan includes:
1 Monitor
30 or 60 minute check intervals
4 Monitoring Locations
Email Alerts
Monthly Reports
Online Statistics
Control Panel
Web Server Monitoring (http)
Email Server Monitoring (pop3)
Email Server Monitoring (smtp)
FTP Server Monitoring [...]
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Mozy had begun the public beta of the MacMozy Backup and the client is now available for everyone to download from their home page. The version is 0.4.1.1 which is a new version for me.
The previous version had failed to work for me in that backups would fail to complete and simply appear to hang [...]
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I’d heard about this gadget on the GizWiz podcast. It seemed like a great idea. A SD card that had a built in USB adapter which eliminates the need for a separate USB card reader. Seemed like a great idea to me and I can always use an SD card.
Now that I have the card [...]
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I’d purchased and used Superduper! with my Mac Mini but when I moved to the iMac I stopped using it. I had used it as a cloner and I didn’t really want to do clones as my primary backup anymore (so I thought) so I switched to Apple Backup. Apple Backup has it’s falts (that’s [...]
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Mozy made the news this week by signing a big deal with GE. Both TechCrunch and the International Herald Tribune are reporting the story.
Based on the stories GE will be using the MozyPro version of the software to back up 300,000 desktops. MozyPro is similar to the free consumer software but they add 24/7 support, [...]
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I'm currently backing up over 32GB in over 121,000 files.
